> Maybe this will change as so many demagogic grafters have been > voted out of office.
Do you mean the bill signed into law by the last Democratic administration, which the current one seems to be intent on stuffing his administration full of its leftovers? Have faith, brother, have faith. > One big problem I have with this is that a DRMed iPod is no longer a > good backup for the music you have on your hard drive. Several times I have > helped recover music collections off of iPods. This will preven that. > (Curiously, I see that iPod drives seem to fail less often than desktop > disk drives.) Don't depend on your iPod as your backup. I know I don't. > 2) What Apple is doing really stinks. They are applying DRM to the > entire song database, not to just individual songs whose owners require DRM. > This is is far worse than just dissing Linux. Such DRM will prevent > 3rd-party software from accessing the media files on the iPod. For once, you and I are in complete agreement. > While I do think that Apple should resist DRM more vigorously, their > problem is a roadblock set up by the RIAA and MPAA and probably the NAB > too. They won't let their content onto iPods unless Apple applies > draconian DRM. So Apple can't move their media players to higher forms > of content unless it applies the DRM they demand. Apple: **wink-wink** We're doing this because the bad people _make_ us do this, not because it forces iPod owners to use our business model, which is a locked-down vertical stove-pipe just by sheer coincidence. **wink-wink** ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
